of liberticides;
he designated the pretended conspirators."--Louvet (ibid., 130),
assigns the same date, (except that he takes the evening for the morning
session), for Robespierre's first denunciation of the Girondists:
"Nobody, then," says Robespierre, "dare name the traitors? Very well,
I denounce them. I denounce them for the security of the people. I
denounce the liberticide Brissot, the Girondist faction, the villainous
committee of twenty-one in the National Assembly. I denounce them for
having sold France to Brunswick and for having received pay in advance
for their baseness."--Sep. 2, ("Proces verbaux de la Commune," evening
session), "MM. Billaud-Varennes and Robespierre, in developing their
civic sentiments,.. denounce to the Conseil-General the conspirators in
favor of the Duke of Brunswick, whom a powerful party want to put on the
throne of France."--September 3, at 6 o'clock in the morning, (Buchez et
Roux, 16, 132, letter of Louvet), commissioners of the Commune present
themselves at Brissot's house with an order to inspect his papers; one
of them says to Brissot that he has eight similar orders against the
Gironde deputies and that he is to begin with Guadet. (Letter of Brissot
complaining of this visit, Monitur, Sep. 7, 1792.) This same day, Sep.
31 Robespierre presides at the Commune. (Granier de Cassagnac, "Les
Girondins" II., 63.) It is here that a deputation of the Mauconseil
section comes to find him, and he is charged by the "Conseil" with a
commission at the Temple.--Sept. 4 (Buchez et Roux, XXI., 106, Speech of
Petion), the Commune issues a warrant of arrest against Roland; Danton
comes to the Mayoralty with Robespierre and has the warrant revoked;
Robespierre ends by telling Petion: "I believe that Brissot belongs to
Brunswick."--Ibid., 506. "Robespierre (before Sept. 2), took the lead in
the Conseil"--Ibid., 107. "Robespierre," I said, "you are making a
good deal of mischief. Your denunciations, your fears, hatreds and
suspicions, excite the people."]

[Footnote 31156: Garat, 86.-Cf. Hamel, I., 264. (Speech, June 9, 1791.)]

[Footnote 31157: "The Revolution," II., 338, 339. (Speech. Aug. 3,
1792.)]

[Footnote 31158: Buchez et Roux, XXXIII., 420. (Speech, Thermidor 8.)]

[Footnote 31159: Ibid., XXXII., 71. (Speech against Danton.) "What have
you done that you have not done freely?"]

[Footnote 31160: Ibid., XXXIII., 199 and 221. (Speech on the law of
Prairial 22.)]

[Footnote 31161: Mira